Members
Hugh Cooke
Hugh Cooke was appointed as Chair of RDA Southern Inland in March 2018. Hugh is a primary producer in the Yass district having previously worked as a Director with the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources and a Director and CFO of Wheat Exports Australia.
Sue Whelan, OAM
Sue Whelan served as a Councillor on Queanbeyan City Council for many years. Sue has served as Deputy Mayor, most recently September 2008 til September 2011. Sue is Chair of Council’s Heritage Committee and Chair of the Queanbeyan/Palerang Library Committee.
John Bell
John Bell is the General Manager of the Upper Lachlan Shire Council based at Crookwell. John has 40 years experience in Local Government working with a number of local government authorities, that all fell, coincidentally, within the current Southern Inland RDA area footprint.
Terry Oakes-Ash OAM, FAICD, FIQ
Terry has been re-elected for his second term. As a civil engineer he has had wide ranging managerial experience, with extensive knowledge of the construction materials industry in Australia ,South East Asia and the USA.
Jenny Calkin
Jenny Calkin is an economist with more than 30 years’ experience in the fields of strategic tourism planning and marketing, business advice and government liaison for tourism projects. She has had extensive experience at local, state, federal and international levels of government and of industry.
Mark Bradbury
Mark Bradbury is a solicitor, establishing Mark Bradbury Legal at the beginning of 2014 in Goulburn.Having served on the School Council of Hurlstone Agricultural High School between 2002 and 2005, Mark is also presently a Board Member of Southern Tablelands Arts and has been the President of the Goulburn Chamber of Commerce since April 2017.
Hui Wang
Hui Wang is Chief Executive Officer of a local export company, who predominantly export Australian quality products to China. Hui was educated in Australia and completed her Masters Degree in Finance at the Australian National University.